@janpaulsen: "Hi
I'm running NetBeans 6.7 on an elderly ADM 64-bit box running Ubuntu. 
I'm having trouble reloading the plug-in catalog. I am getting the error
Unable to connect to the NetBeans because of 
java.net.UnknownHostException: updates.netbeans.org
I have verified that NetBeans is set up to use a direct connection (as 
opposed to a proxy), which I guess it should since Ubuntu is said up 
that way according to the menu item System888a:dbb7:2d49:b3f6:8605:bf4e:caed:e5a4Preferences888a:dbb7:2d49:b3f6:8605:bf4e:caed:e5a4Network proxy.
The same thing happens with NetBean 6.5.1.
Also, when I first installed the application, the welcome screen did not 
display any of the networked information as it is supposed to do.
Any ideas what to do? Things work under my XP partition, but I'd rather 
stay (far) away from using that...
Oh, and please point me in the proper directory if I've hit the wrong 
newsgroup, sorry and thank you in advance.
Regards,
Jan Paulsen"
    @janpaulsen: "<quote>
Sorry for all the misspellings. I was a bit too fast writing this. 
Anyway, I think you get the gist of the problem, even though an 
occurence of "said" should've been "set", "ADM" should've been "AMD" and 
"directory" should've been "direction". Where's that context-aware 
spelling verifier I've been wanting all my life?!?
Regards,
Jan Paulsen"
    @nospam: "<quote>
I can't ping "updates.netbeans.org" so I assume that there isn't any 
such server.  When I reload the catalog, I see a network trace 
connecting to 83.161.120.155, which is part of a netblock owned by Sun.  I 
can't tell if that server has a name or not.
Normally this group is fine, but we don't always have detailed 
information on NetBeans or how it works.  It sounds to me like you might 
have some stale information that NetBeans is using to connect.  (This 
happened to me once.)  Remove all versions of NetBeans and re-install 
may be the only answer.
For a better chance at contacting real experts, go to the NetBeans 
users' mailing list:
<<url>
That's where I ask my really tough NB questions."
    @nospam: "<quote>
FWIW:$ host updates.netbeans.org
updates.netbeans.org is an alias for dlc.sun.com.
dlc.sun.com has address 83.161.120.155
The host ignores pings, but it's responding to URL's in Plugins > 
Settings.
I've had some luck just removing the preferences, ~/.netbeans* on my 
platform. Of course, that entails no small effort if one has many custom 
settings.
Agreed.
John B. Matthews
ljames@example.org
<<url>"
    @janpaulsen: "<quote>
Thanks, guys. I'm now a happy subscriber to the (quite active) nbusers 
mailing list. I solved the problem by simply removing etc/netbeans.conf. 
This, in turn, gave other problems, which I could solve. If I had to do 
it again, I would probably spend more time researching netbeans.conf. 
Anyway, things are running now. The origin of the problem seems to be an 
import of NetBeans 6.5 settings, which had the same problem.
Regards,
Jan Paulsen"
    @janpaulsen: "<quote>
At least I thought it was working, but the error came creeping back in. 
I finally found out that the problem is in etc/netbeans.conf, where the line
netbeans_jdkhome="/home/jan/SDK/jdk"
was the culprit. As it turns out, everything seems to be working fine 
with this line commented out (guessing that NetBeans is using the 
environment variables in that case), so I'm just going to leave it at 
that unless I hear strong arguments against it. Jeez, getting to that 
UML plug-in has taken its while...
Regards,
Jan Paulsen"
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